Opening: The June Exhibition opens: Shifting Coordinates
Peer Review, Ayan Abdi, Kebreab Demeke, Makda Embaie, Nadra Hassan, Alexandra Mitiku, Germain Ngoma, Rafiki, Awo Abdulqadir, Linda Gathu, Lovette Jallow, Black History Month Norway, Pan-African Students Union of the University of Stavanger, Ubuntu Film Club, Daría Sól Andrews, Haweya Jama, Khanyisile Mbongwa, Lara OkaforHow does Black storytelling explore ritual, resistance, and imagination across the Nordics? This question anchors Peer Review’s collective project and transitions the 2026 June Exhibition at Kunstnerforbundet into a discursive platform and a month-long institutional takeover.
Peer Review (est. 2024) is a collective platform for cultural analysis across Black visual culture for and by Africans and its diaspora in Oslo.
Artists: Ayan Abdi, Kebreab Demeke, Makda Embaie, Nadra Hassan, Alexandra Mitiku, Germain Ngoma, Rafiki.
Public programme: Awo Abdulqadir, Linda Gathu, Nadra Hassan, Lovette Jallow, Black History Month Norway, Pan-African Students Union of the University of Stavanger, Ubuntu Film Club.
Texts by: Daría Sól Andrews, Haweya Jama, Khanyisile Mbongwa, Lara Okafor.
Image credit: Nadra Hassan, still from 'That's a Gabay (poem)?’ (2022)